Metal Mouth Message Board

i have been told that adult arch cannot be expanded? how are you expanding your arch? do you have a link to the expander that you are wearing?

i know how it feels... I am in a similar situation as you. my first ortho didn't even notice my crooked jaw at first.. only after like 4 months when i brought up the issue that my bite seems way off, only then he said that I have a crooked jaw.. I have been to so many consults, only been told that n...

has anyone had any experience with Carriere? is the Carriere distalizer the same as class II elastics? which ortho should I go with? their treament plan is basically the same. Ortho #1 is nicer and more patient. Ortho #2 told me something no one has told me before (not sure if it's a good thing....)...

Ortho 2: This ortho is the most unique. she looked at my pano xrays, and says that my crooked jaw could also be due to an anterior disc placement. Basically, the TMD disc has slipped, and caused my condyle to slip.. this is also the reason for my TMJ. She says that my crooked jaw could be due to a c...

Ortho 1: This ortho is the nicest, most patient, and gave me the most options. She examined my teeth, and gave me 3 options: 1) jaw surgery 2) extract my wisdom teeth. 1 year of invisalign to let all my teeth touch. doing IPR on top to unflare the incisors a bit. no IPR on the bottom because she doe...

so i've gone to about 6,7 consultations. lost count really. weirdly, the first words out of every one's mouth is your jaw is crooked. In order to correct your bite, u need surgery most ortho say: either jaw surgery, or basically about a year of invisalign. The main benefit of 1 year of invisalign is...

Teeth before. Teeth after 6 months of braces...

if people remember me, I had tiny bit of crowding on the lower teeth that I wanted to fix. Went to an ortho, asked pretty much zero questions, got put on braces for 6 months. The effect of 6 months of braces are: 1) severe flaring of my incisors. 2) arch shape got more V shaped. 3) maloclusion got w...

I also had recession around the lower incisors. I went to a periodontist, and he said it's perfectly fine to wait until after braces my gumline was kind of similar to your bad tooth gumline. i also bought a lot of "gingigel" from amazon.. It doesn't really re-grow gums, but it kinda calmed...

Hi, Just an update. I debraced about a months now. I had a dental cleaning, and a whitening. the cleaning cleaned off most of the glue. The in office whitening didn't do sesame... i am in the process of going through numerous consults. It's weird that last year when I consulted 2 orthodontists, neit...

it really depends. There's a user on this board that debraced and wanted relapse. he said that he relapsed in 3 months or so

I had to debrace early. I had braces on for 7 months. It's been a month or so since i debraced. Desparately want to relapse. But my teeth didn't move one bit!

thanks for the suggestions you guys. I brought the xray of my old ortho, and it was perfectly fine to use that.

Hi @meowmeowbeans2, you did gum graft before braces? I have some gum recession. but seems like orthos all suggest to do orthodontics then gum graft. Do you worry that your grafted gums would come loose during the braces treatment? did the ortho ask you to do gum graft before braces or did you choose...

also, let this be a lesson to anyone (but probably too late if u r reading this). If your only complain about your teeth is some crowding.. just be careful of getting ortho treatment. My overlapped bottom teeth were definitely God's way of compensating my unbalanced lower jaw. And once I started dow...

I went to another consult today.. this ortho is a diamond plus invisalign provider. I have nailed down to 6 different orthos this time. and since I now have no braces on me, there's no problems of getting a consult... I told the ortho I had an invisalign express treatment (that's when the nightmare ...